Birth Certificate Secondary Evidence

[AB loves AG 54]

My sister-in-law is currently at the NVC and her birth certificate is not being accepted.  She is from Ghana and they are stating she needs secondary evidence such as a weigh in card frim her birth or baptismal certificate. She does not have either of these.  Does anyone know what else she can provide?

[JeanneAdil 7,286]

follow the same instructions that you would submit if a birth certificate was not available

 

If you sent a copy from Ghana ,  the paper size may be the issue / the paper size is slightly different than the US and when i went thru a lawyer for 1 visa , he copied the bene birth certificate and NVC didn't like it/they wanted to see the Moroccan one on their size paper

 

otherwise look at following site and it should help  

 

https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-6-part-j-chapter-3#:~:text=If primary documentation of birth,petitioner's burden of proof by

 

If primary documentation of birth is not available to the petitioner, USCIS may consider affidavits or secondary evidence of age, which may include baptismal certificates, school records, hospital records, or immunization records, in order to evaluate whether the petitioner has met the petitioner’s burden of proof by the preponderance of the evidence.